Facebook Reverts to Previous Terms

Adam Ostrow mentions in his article, "That was quick" after Facebook's one and only Mark Zuckerberg changes the site's Term of Use back to its normal position after trying to defend the uncoherent changes he try to make to the policy. I am not surprised at all that Zuckerberg was forced to immediately change it back to were it was. No official research has be done to find out if people try to escape facebook or delete their account for good, but what I do know it's that he scared away millions of facebook users.

The reason I know that millions of users were scared is becasue not only everyone close to me including myself got scared, but also because Ostrow mentions in his article that the company created a poll to find out what users thought about the controversial changes being made. Not to be surprised at all, 6 percent supported the new changes but 56 percent opposed to them, 38 percent didn't respond.

So what was Zuckerberg force to do after his "plan" completley failed. I call it a plan becasue all hi was trying to do was either tell his users something they wanted to hear or by word of mouth, non users to be alarmed and influenced by the ne terms of use, and join the website. Of course he didn't get what he wanted so somehow he had to send a Terms of Use Update saying that the policy would remain the way it was. He not only did this but also, according to Ostrow's article, he wrote a blog post saying that Facebook is going back to the original terms and that this was the right thing to do due to the overly formal language used in the new terms.

I totally agree with Adam Ostrow mentions at the end of his article about the smart move Facebook pulled out. I beleive they digged out the whole they got into pretty well, and now they are back on track. But what I also beleive is that besides getting back on track by creating the "Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsabilities" option, they ensured that that this issue doesn't plague the social network in the future, Ostrow mentions, something I think the company did very well.